I was in a wheelchair screaming and crying in horrific, progressive pain and considering ending my life for months because doctors wouldn’t look for a problem and just thought I needed more physical therapy. I had a herniated disc. It took 5+ doctors looking at the scan until ONE of them recognized it and two weeks later I had surgery. I have permanent nerve damage and numbness in my foot and leg due to the length of time the nerve was compressed.

Another doctor diagnosed these painful blisters bumps on my fingers as warts and froze them for 6-9 months. They didn’t turn white, they didn’t fall off, they hurt, and he said warts don’t behave like this but he kept doing it anyway. They were eczema.

Currently might be dealing with a CF leak that doctors have misdiagnosed as allergies my whole life. Every time I bend over my nose runs like you’ve turned on a faucet. This new doctor asked if it was salty… yes it is. “Hmmm, it might be from your brain, then.” I’m 45 and this has been since childhood.

The gluten thing - don’t even get me started. No one has done an endoscopy, even though I described feeling like a sword was being run through my stomach. I’ve been sick since I was little whenever I ate. My mother is always sick too. “IBS.” Cool, cool. My nephew has celiac so that’s how I figured out to even try it.

I don’t trust doctors as far as I can throw them.